Good morning New York! Rise and shine because we have some oh so pretty people to introduce to you fine folks today! From gorgeous gowns to pretty pictures to stylish stationery to beauty – today we have it all covered. First up is the every so lovely bridal boutique, Everthine. I don’t think I’ve seen a more picture perfect place in quite some time! Then we have the talented Jennifer Davis Photography – whose images are priceless keepsakes to say the least. Intima Press Letterpress Design Studio follows in their pretty foot steps, and if you know how much I swoon over stationery, you know I am in love with this little shop. Last, but certainly not least, is Jackie Schneider Beauty. Oh how I am thankful for those in the industry that can make my tired eyes look perfectly perky (you know what I’m talking about!). There is a lot to cover this morning, so settle in, pull those blankets up and get to know some of our favorite friends! And don’t forget, there are deals lurking below!
Photography: Michelle Gardella
About Everthine…Everthine was created with the unique and modern bride in mind. Upon entering, you will feel a vintage nostalgia that will make your heart flutter. Our designers portray vintage details, soft elegance, and bohemian spirit. From Jenny Packham to Sarah Seven, we carry high-end designers large and small. At Everthine, our dresses are hand selected with the unique bride in mind. We choose our gowns so that each bride feels special, different, and one-of-a-kind. From unique headpieces to vintage jewelry, we pride ourselves on offering brides a chance to personalize their wedding style from head to toe with the one-on-one attention every bride deserves. We are centrally located on the Connecticut Shoreline in Madison, CT.
From Jennifer Davis Photography…I’ve been documenting weddings for six years now and I have to say I have the best job.. I get to be around people on the happiest day of their lives! I get to capture all of that emotion and beauty of the day. I’d like to offer a free lifestyle shoot in New York City to one SMP reader. Just leave a comment below with your proposal story and Jennifer will pick a winner next week!
From Intima Press Letterpress Design Studio…Letterpress printing continues to excite with the most readable, elegant text available, as 3-dimensional letters or a relief plate is pressed into a lush, high quality cotton paper. At theLetterpress Designs Studio, located on Union Square in the heart of Manhattan, we have been printing letterpress for over 15 years. We honor the labor and elegance of past traditions and approach each design with the greatest care and attention to detail. Our designs are a union of art historical traditions and modern sensibilities. We work with you to provide you with custom handmade invitation suites as unique as you are. Our vintage letterpress renders beautiful impressions of your text and images. Everything we do is crafted by hand and custom designed. Our high-end Artistic Printing reflects the importance of your special day, as the crisp, deep impression of Letterpress sets the tone of your wedding while making a lasting impact with your guests. We are pleased to offer 50 free thank you notes with every wedding invitation set ordered. Simply mention SMP in your e-mail or call!
From Jackie Schneider Beauty…From weddings and events, to pin-up, to editorial and headshots, any opportunity to help transform someone’s look (however subtle or extreme), is an exciting prospect for me. I love getting to know my clients and take extra time with each of you to make sure you’re comfortable. My bridal consultations are extremely thorough and personalized. However long it takes, I work with clients until they feel confident and comfortable so that they go into their big day without any stress about beauty services.
Though I started playing with my mom’s makeup as a kid and haven’t put the brushes down since, it’s taken me a while to figure out that my beauty skills could be more than a passion I pursued on the side. I received a BA in English at Cornell University and an MA in Journalism at NYU. I’ve worked as an editor, researcher and fact-checker for several top glossy magazines (In Style, Harper’s Bazaar, House & Garden, Shape, to name a few), but I spent my weekends building Jackie Schneider Beauty and taking makeup jobs. In Fall of 2010, I decided to pursue the beauty biz full-time, and enrolled in ARROJO Cosmetology School run by the “What Not to Wear” television hair guru Nick Arrojo. Having added hairstylist to my list of skills, beautifying people is my career. From now through the remainder of 2011, SMP readers will receive 15% off of beauty services. Fill out the contact form at jackieschneiderbeauty.com and mention SMP to receive this discount.
We hope you love our newest advertisers as much as we do and make sure to stop by their sites and show them some SMP support! Welcome aboard everyone, we’re happy to have you join our Style Me Pretty New York family! xoxo
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My fiance and I are avid sailors and we bought a sailboat together this spring. He popped the question about a month ago in Newport, RI, as we overlooked the harbor after a long day of working on our boat (we were sanding the teak toe rail together, to be exact)! We are originally from Texas (me) and Michigan (him) but we met and fell in love in NYC and have built our life together here. I would love to have an engagement shoot up here, though we'll be getting married back home in Texas. Thanks for your consideration - I'm sure it will be hard to choose!
Steve and I became best friends when we were 14, at which time I had this strange conviction that I someday wanted to be proposed to while ice skating at Rockefeller Center, in front of the big tree, in New York City. We started dating at 16 and haven't turned back since. Steve decided to propose when we were in our hometown for Christmas, but he wanted to incorporate that wish that I told him so long ago. On our 5 year anniversary, he planned a date in which we would go to the outdoor ice skating rink in our hometown, complete with a huge Christmas tree, and propose. The first attempt, on our anniversary, was not a success-- I had been sick the whole day and when we got to the rink, I knew there was no way I could ice skate. Of course, I had no idea what his plans were when I asked if we could reschedule. He waited until 3 days later when I was feeling better, and we stumbled and slipped around the rink for a while (neither of us are actually good ice skaters) until he made his move. He brought me over by the tree, pulled out the ring box, and asked me to marry him. 6 months later, we moved to New York City-- and I work right next to Rockefeller Center! We would love to have a lifestyle session here, where we are building the next part if our lives together in a city we are so happy to now call home.
Darrin and I moved to NYC together in 2007. It was a few weeks before Christmas of last year. I had not been feeling well the past few days, and so was definitely not expecting anything (although I had been hoping). On a random Tuesday night, I came home to a beautiful surprise dinner he had made. After dinner, since I was not feeling well, I decided to make myself a cup of tea, but when I opened the tea box I found something - no, not a ring, but a cockroach! I screamed, and the next hour was spent cleaning out our cupboard. Little did I know that Darrin's plans had been foiled by an insect. Later on, we were in bed, and Darrin started talking about our relationship, and how much he loved me. Then he said, "I have an early Christmas present for you" and he pulled out a beautiful wooden box, with the most gorgeous sapphire ring, and he asked me to marry him. Later on, I asked him why he proposed on a Tuesday night when things were not going as planned. He simply said, "I just couldn't wait any longer." We would love to have a lifestyle shoot here in NYC, where we have made our home.
Eric and I are recent New Yorkers, having move this winter with our 2 dogs, Penelope and Lucy, from Chicago. We often go to Central Park with the dogs and on this particular outing, he kept asking me to get dog toys out of his bag for them. The third time I reached into his bag, I finally found the ring box and opened it only to quickly close it and throw it back in. I was so surprised, I didn't know what to do with it. Anyway, after about 5 minutes of shock and happy surprise, I, of course, said yes and found out that it was 6 years to the day since we first met at graduate school. He looked it up and figured it out. So now we have a day to celebrate, the first day we met and the day we got engaged, October 16. It was a great proposal since it involved our 2 little dogs who are more like our kids although they had no idea what was going on the entire time.
I'm a New Yorker. Andrew's from Dublin, Ireland. We met when we were in graduate school and are both writers. After school, I stayed in Dublin and we very quickly realized this was it. I knew, eventually, that I wanted to move back to NY, and Andrew wanted to go to graduate school in the states. But i got into school in New York City, and he in rural Massachusetts. So for the past year and a half, every weekend, one of us spends ten hours commuting to see each other. One Friday I came up to visit and Andrew presented me with a desk he had built for me. It had all my books and pictures, post-it notes -- everything I need to write. He said we move around a lot, and we'll probably continue moving around for a while, but that he would always make sure I had a place to write. One of the books on the table was an old book, and when I opened it there was a ring box inside. When I looked back at him he was on one knee, it was such a surprise. The fact that we were going to spend the rest of our lives together is such a foregone conclusion, but I was completely surprised it was actually happening.
Steven and I met our first year out of college at the accounting firm that we worked for. We did not have any projects or clients together but had mutual colleagues and knew of each other. I was with someone else when we met, but something about him always caught my eye. About a year later when I was back into the single life, we started dating. To this day, I still feel that our first date was truly magical and was the best date I've ever had in my entire life. (It's a whole 'nother story in and of itself.) Sadly, things didn't work out at the time and we lost touch for about 15 months. Fast forward to Winter 2009, as I'm on the phone with my best friend, telling her how much I thought about Steven and how I had wished things worked out. She sent him a message via Facebook without me knowing, and we ended up getting back in touch, and eventually dating and falling in love.
During our first summer together, we spent days on end having picnics in a local park. Living in Philadelphia, it was our own little escape from the city and the rest of the world. We both started new jobs and life soon became this non-stop whirlwind of being busy with work (we both work about 60-70 hours/week), and the picnics ended. Last month, Steve said to me, "Let's go on a picnic. I miss spending time with you and just enjoying nature." So we went. That morning, Steve was acting pretty peculiar, but I shrugged it off. I noticed a photographer in the park, but I figured she was just taking photos of the fall foliage. Steve loves to paint in his spare time; it's one of his few hobbies that he truly loves. He asked me to take a photo of a row of trees, so that he could paint them later. I'm standing on the ledge of a fountain as I take the photo, and as I head back to the picnic blanket, Steve meets me along the fountain. He tells me that he loves me and that he wants to spend the rest of his life with me, gets down on bended knee and proposes...! The photographer that I saw around the park starts taking photos of us and Steve later tells me that she was a friend of his, and he had planned the entire thing and had asked her to be there. He also tells me that the "painting the trees" bit was just a decoy to get me away from the picnic blanket so that he could pull out the little red box from a sweatshirt that he brought along!
After the proposal, we went to share the news with my parents. A few hours later, we decided to get lunch -- and we ended up at the restaurant where we had lunch on our first date.
Today is 5 weeks that we have been engaged :). We're loving every second of it and are excited to start wedding planning and to spend forever together. Thank you for reading our story, and for the opportunity!
Happy early Thanksgiving! :)
My fiancé and I met 9 years plus some change ago in the photo lab at a local university in California. To say the least, on that day, October 21, 2002, things already started to develop. It’s been a crazy time these past years. Always supportive, we stayed together during my brief stint in Japan where I lived for a little over a year. This happened 5 years into our relationship. Then, my job transferred me to New York in December 2009. With constant traveling back and forth to keep the fire burning, he made the giant leap and bought a one way ticket to New York in June 2010 and we’ve been Brooklynites since. For our 8 year anniversary/Christmas gift/any type of gift for who knows how long, he took me to Iceland and at the stroke of midnight on the highest peak of Reykjavik with fireworks illuminating the sky and my favorite Perry Como song playing on his iPod, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I of course said “Yes!”
We both love NY but coincidentally our combined initials are CA. No doubt a California love we will be
married back in California on October 21, 2012, exactly 10 years from the first day we met.
Often times we meet people throughout our lives and enjoy the time we are able to share with them, but unfortunately relationships fizzle & memories fade. Thankfully, that is not the case for Joel (my fiancé) and I. We met through a mutual friend in New Jersey one month before I was to move across the country to Florida- starting fresh & new, (or so I thought!) Even though I was thousands of miles from him, I still couldn’t get ‘this guy’ out of my head and we ended up speaking almost every day until I decided to move back home 6 months later.
We spent the next 2 years sharing our lives and becoming accustomed to each other’s cultural differences. We fell on hard times when Joel lost his job, but his dedication to creating a life together was apparent and I quickly realized that he and I were able to lean on each other for support. Fast forward to April 2010 and I am 8 months pregnant with our daughter! Although we owned a home together and were expecting, Joel and I were not engaged (something I had been waiting for, but knew was probably out of reach because of Joel’s lack of steady employment). I had accepted this and was far too excited to meet my baby girl than to even think of not having a ring on my finger.
On one particularly warm April day, all I had on my mind was dinner (appropriately so). I was hungry and ready to visit one of our favorite restaurants when Joel called to me from upstairs. He had a headache and was asking for a glass of water, but I was impatient and did not want to climb the stairs unless it was absolutely necessary! After I said no to his request, he apologized that he wasn’t feeling well and if I minded having sandwiches for dinner that evening.
Our engagement almost didn't happen! Joel was extremely nervous & then I refused to come upstairs- not exactly what he had envisioned!
His 2nd attempt came just a few days later under similar circumstances. He and I had been working to finish our nursery and I was becoming more and more anxious as my due date approached. There were small details that needed to be done & he was the only person who could do them. One afternoon he asked me to come upstairs (not an easy task when extremely pregnant) & invited me into the nursery. He had finally put the finishing touches I had so desperately waited for and before I could take it all in, he was down on one knee proposing. He explained that he had been ready for a while to make our family whole, but wanted to make sure that everything was perfectly in place first. Amidst a sea of pink flowers and adorable little baby clothes, I said ‘yes’.
Of course he had to explain his first attempt- to which I denied ever giving him a hard time…
Now that our daughter is almost a year and a half, we are planning our destination wedding in Florida. This has been a long time coming & we are extremely thrilled to be able to include her in the process. I think shopping for her dress was more exciting than shopping for mine!!
My fiancee had rented a beachside condo in Amagansett, NY to propose during our third anniversary, when his plans were derailed by hurricane Irene. Luckily, he was able to reschedule our weekend for 9.10.11.
As we sat under the moonlight in the cottage with the windows open, I mused out loud about how the moment was almost perfect. "If I had a remote control for the world, I would push "wind off, smelly candles on," thinking of the Bath and Body candles I liked to light. Just as I said that, he pulled out tea candles from his back pack and tried lighting them though the wind threatened to snuff them out. After pulling out my favorite wine and cheese, he pulled out the stuffed animal that I gave him for our first anniversary who was holding the sweetest note about how much he appreciated me. He asked me to turn over the note and it asked "Will you marry me?" He got down on one knee and pulled out the ring and asked me to make him the happiest man alive.